I bought a Alpha 8045 heatsink, and a silencer fan to go with it. While waiting for it to arrive, I was reading the install instructions (this should be fun), and noticed that I need some thermal grease. I've never dealt with it before, so I just wanted to be sure that arctic silver 3 would be the stuff to get.
Edit- Oh yeah, the place I bought my silencer fans from (http://www.pcpowerandcooling.com/home.htm) said that they were throwing in some grease for free. Is this most likely generic brand stuff good enough, or is there that much of a difference between the regular and the best?
Also, my other question. I'll be removing my old coolermaster hsf combo, and I was thinking that there was probably going to be some residue from the thermal pad that the coolermaster HS used. How do I clean this off without damaging the cpu?
Edit- Oh yeah, the place I bought my silencer fans from (http://www.pcpowerandcooling.com/home.htm) said that they were throwing in some grease for free. Is this most likely generic brand stuff good enough, or is there that much of a difference between the regular and the best?
Also, my other question. I'll be removing my old coolermaster hsf combo, and I was thinking that there was probably going to be some residue from the thermal pad that the coolermaster HS used. How do I clean this off without damaging the cpu?
